Re: Log in to user mailbox as admin

On 3/16/21 7:21 AM, Neil Price wrote:
> Is there any way to do this in cyrus-imap? Something like the 
> equivalent of Dovecot's  "auth_master_user_separator"

Most Cyrus command line tools which interact with mailboxes will accept 
both the -a and -u flags, which mean Authenticate as and Authorize as, 
and each takes a userid as their arguments.

For example, this is from the manpage for imtest(8):

    *imtest*  [*-t*  /keyfile/  ] [*-p*  /port/  ] [*-m*  /mechanism/  ]
         [*-a*  /userid/  ] [*-u*  /userid/  ] [*-k*  /num/  ] [*-l*  /num/  ]
         [*-r*  /realm/  ] [*-f*  /file/  ] [*-n*  /num/  ] [*-s*  ] [*-q*  ]
         [*-c*  ] [*-i*  ] [*-z*  ] [*-v*  ] [*-I*  /file/  ] [*-x*  /file/  ]
         [*-X*  /file/  ] [*-w*  /passwd/  ] [*-o*  /option/=/value/  ]/hostname ... /

    |-a||userid|

        Userid to use for authentication; defaults to the current user.
        This is the userid whose password or credentials will be
        presented to the server for verification.

    |-u||userid|

        Userid to use for authorization; defaults to the current user.
        This is the userid whose identity will be assumed after
        authentication.

So if I use this command I will connect to my own Inbox as the Admin user:

    imtest -a admin -u nic imap.example.com

Cheers,
     -nic

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